"I have nothing to say and I'm saying it."

 

John Cage

 

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Lend your ears to music, open yours eyes to imagery, and....stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' in a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"

 

Wassily Kandinsky

  

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"Perhaps we may, one day, isolate everything as an object/experience/drama from which, as participants, we can extract an impulse so brilliant and strong that the environment, as it is, is transformed."

 

Mark Boyle (Boyle Family)

  

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"I want to touch the light,

the heat, I see in your eyes."

 

Peter Gabriel

  

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"If a thing is worth doing once, it is worth doing over and over again".

 

Mark Rothko

  

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"I paint life as I see it, hear it, feel it, smell it, and think it - but above all, see it"

 

Ivon Hitchens.

  

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"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."

 

Glenn Gould.

  

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"To be creative is like riding a bicycle - unless you keep going forwards, you fall over."

 

Pierre Boulez

 

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“The world is very very beautiful if you look at it, but most people don’t look very much. They scan the ground in front of them so they can walk, they don’t really look at things incredibly well, with an intensity. I do.”

 

David Hockney

 

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"From the heart...to the heart"

 

Ludwig van Beethoven

  

... for all fellow Flickrers!